The former ÖFB international Nina Burger will appear before the regional court in St. Pölten next Monday after a fatal traffic accident in Langenrohr. The public prosecutor accuses the 35-year-old of manslaughter by gross negligence. Burger is accused of an alcohol content of 0.78 promille in connection with fatigue.
The accident happened on November 25 last year in the early morning hours. According to the police, the former top athlete arrived with her car on the B19 to the right of the berm shortly before 5:30 a.m. and then swerved to the left. She crashed into a 37-year-old’s car. All help came too late for the Lower Austrian. The driver was taken to Tulln University Hospital with injuries.
There was a threat of three years in prison
The trial will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday and will last an hour and a half, the spokeswoman for the regional court said on request on Wednesday. If convicted, he faces three years in prison.
After the accident, the ÖFB sent a statement on behalf of Burger. “I cannot find words to express my regret for what happened today. All my thoughts are with the bereaved. What they have to go through now is hard to imagine and hard to bear,” said the former ÖFB player of the national team.
Source: Krone
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